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title: Identify the year in which serfdom was abolished in the Russian Empi… — Rights won step by step: freedom, vote… · tree and pragmatics
description: Identify the year in which serfdom was abolished in the Russian Empire, inclusive of much of present-day Ukraine. Exam question 1 of lesson 69 «Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights» of the history course of Mova's primary school, with the dependency tree and pragmatics of th
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# Exam question 1 · Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rig…

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Identify the year in which serfdom was abolished in the Russian Empire, inclusive of much of present-day Ukraine.

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**Mova's choice:** option 1 · **The right answer:** option 3 · wrong ✗ · **Who acts:** you · **What happens:** identify, abolish · **To what, where:** serfdom, Russian Empire

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This is exam question 1 of lesson 69 «Rights won step by step: freedom, votes and children's rights» of the history course of Mova's primary school, asked in stiff, formal language. The page gives the question's syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause, then the 4 options as the student saw them, each with its tree and pragmatics. Every text is parsed by Mova itself. How the student answered it, with the score of every option and why: [the test at school](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/school-run/history/69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights/#e1).

## The question {#question}

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights:e1:1
# text = Identify the year in which serfdom was abolished in the Russian Empire, inclusive of much of present-day Ukraine.
1	Identify	identify	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obl	_	_
6	serfdom	serfdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	abolished	abolish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Russian	Russian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Empire	Empire	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	inclusive	inclusive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
16	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	nsubj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
21	Ukraine	Ukraine	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **identify** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  | year |  | vn empathize-88.2 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **abolish** | past · passive |  | serfdom |  | the Russian Empire |  |  | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

## The options {#options}

### Option 1 · ← Mova's choice {#o1}

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Seventeen seventy-six

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights:e1:o1:1
# text = Seventeen seventy-six
1	Seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	seventy	seventy	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	six	six	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 2 {#o2}

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Nineteen eighty-one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights:e1:o2:1
# text = Nineteen eighty-one
1	Nineteen	nineteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 3 · ✓ the right answer {#o3}

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Eighteen sixty-one

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights:e1:o3:1
# text = Eighteen sixty-one
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	sixty	sixty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

### Option 4 {#o4}

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Eighteen forty-eight

```conllu
# sent_id = question:history:69-rights-won-step-by-step-freedom-votes-and-children-s-rights:e1:o4:1
# text = Eighteen forty-eight
1	Eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	eight	eight	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	conj	_	_
```

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** the tests of Mova's primary school, written for Mova (`world/data/school/`), as the course runner gave them to the student. **Trees:** Mova's own parse — the `en` model on the CPU, when the site is built — not checked by a teacher; they may be wrong. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), each text read on its own. Elamur Cosmic License.

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